What is the furthest anyone has driven on a fixed tank of fuel?

Chatting with Muddy_Doe tonight and he can get Adelaide to Woolongong, Just, on a tank.

My old Tojo FJ55 had a 205 litre single tank. Trouble is it had a 4.3litre engine and was petrol to boot. 800k with a tailwind was about the best. I heard of a bloke who drove from Melbourne to Goondiwindi on a 60 litre tank of diesel in a VW Golf. About 1200k I think.

If it was the opposite , i would win hands down with the caddy and Ptrool . Caddy runs at 50 lts per 100 kms and Ptrool gets a touch better lol

I get about 800 km out of my 78L standard tank in the Jeep - if I drive to really conserve fuel...... which means 100km/h on cruise.

Boulia to Alice Springs (about 815k) in my 80 Series 4.5lt petrol. Full load but drive conservatively. Had about 10lts left in the tank when I filled up.

80# L / Cruiser 80 L tank 730 Kl open road running with medium load Low fuel light just starting to flicker
Ray

Schevchenko,

I've just sold my Prado and bought a 79series LandCruiser Cab chassis turbo-diesel, so this info is fresh in my mind.

The 79series also has standard 180 tanks, and the ADR 81/01 Test standard quotes 11.7 l/100km

Same standard for the manual TD Prado is 11.4 l/100km, but for the auto is 12.6 l/100km.

So they are pretty close.

Cheers
Phil
2002 HDJ79

Had a silly mate with a petrol/gas Range Rover. Thought he would run on the petrol until it went dry to see how far he could get, then switch on the gas. Silly bugger forgot that the fuel pump needs fuel to keep it lubricated, can't remember how far he got on the petrol, but the experiment cost him a new fuel pump and a lot of embarrasment!!!

Cheers

Buggerlux

My best is 620k from 70l thats 11.20l/100Ks (Kerry has got better in the 10s) and thats not taking it easy just my normal driving and to lazy to stop for fuel, 110Ks on the freeway boot down when overtaking i can't take it easy i've tried just gives my the $hit$.

Baz.

I have the previous TD Prado with the 159L fuel capacity. The furthest completed was 1313kms from the Great Ocean Road to the Blue Mountains.

Just finished a trip to Sydney and back. On the way down I filled up at Musclebrook and went to Sydney via the Putty, drove around Sydney for a few hours then went back up to Tamworth and drove around there for two days and then filled up. The Rangie had done 1115 Kms for 102 Lts, thats about 9.1 Lts per 100 Kms. To this time that is the best consumption so far. ( the Rangie has 114,000 on the clock )

4.2 Turbo Patrol. Canberra to Bairnsdale via Melbourne, all at Hwy speeds. 1028k and used 115lts. (Around the 11.1) Vehicle with a medium load, no rack. Best was 9.95 Dubbo to Canberra loaded.

Slightly cheating as not standard tanks - but my OKA travels comfortably from Alice Springs to Broome (approx 1900 km) with over half a tank to spare. Two tanks each just under 200 litres - made by Out of Town 4WD in Barnsley, NSW.

Will claim record however for the QL Bedford mobile laboratory that I drove twice across and up and down the whole of Africa in the 1960s - incl two Saharan crossings. Comfortably Gibralter to London via the south of France - to which I detoured to watch the French Grand Prix (at I fear Mobil Oil's expense).

Petrol engined - tankage approx 1700 litres. Fuel range about 5500 km (ie, a bit over 3 km/litre).

About 25 km past the last servo that I should have stopped at ::embarrassed::

That was at 550 km from a 60 liter tank.

NRMA service was good though.......

Hi groovers,
The Smurf Mobile has 195ltrs on board (65 ltr main and 130 aux). Driving around town I can get about 1200 km out of it (mind you its a 2.4 with a chook cooker) & I drive it fairly hard. On the other hand Lucy drives it and get 1500 km out of the same amount of fuel........there obvoiusly is a lesson there im thinking.....

But the craziest thing is doing a long haul with nothing on the roof but the car fairly loaded up im still getting around the same fuel consumption. But when I load it to the gills I loose about 300 ish Km.

Hope this helps

REXY :)

Hi all,

With the standard twin 90 litre tanks in the Prado TD I ran it down to the low fuel light one time. It took 160 litres for 1,331 km.

Would theoretically go 1500km on the full 180 litres given i consistently get 12 l/100km.

Cheers
Muddy 'doe

Td Prado 180l capacity. Brisbane to Holbrook via Sydney nearly empty but still had a few litres. 1450km all up and not nursing it but just a bit over the speed limit and carrying camping gear. Toyota did a test in the Netherlands (very flat) and achieved over 2,300km forget the exact distance. it wasn't typical driving but they did it nevertheless